Did you ever figure out how to fix your issue? The same issue was happening to my Unity program and an old version of Maya and I found a fix online.
Hello,
I have a trial version of Maya 2010, and it started crashing. I've been using it for about 2 weeks with no problems up until now. I'm only doing simple modeling using polygons, and all of my files are pretty small, but it just freezes, then says 'Maya application file has stopped working' and I have to close the program and start all over. I have no idea what the problem is. I also have Maya 2009 installed, so I tried switching over to Maya 2009 thinking it was maybe just the trial version, but 2009 does the same thing.
I don't know if I should be deleting files, or if something is missing or what. its been working absolutely fine until just now. I have a Dell xps M1530 with Vista if that helps. I looked in problem reports and this is what came up:
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: maya.exe
Application Version: 2009.7.28.7
Application Timestamp: 4a6e8e09
Fault Module Name: FOUNDATION.dll
Fault Module Version: 2009.7.28.7
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a6e85ee
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0003d893
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 40eb
Additional Information 2: c38536813ab0725b2a1fcf7e8c4c9429
Additional Information 3: 515d
Additional Information 4: b4e9bd57546c1d860c3cb9bf827726fd
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 1618390241
If anyone knows how I could fix this please let me know! No idea if this is something where I just have to delete the history or what but any help would be great. If you need anything else let me know.

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